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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The North-West Bend of the Aegean Sea forms a great Gulfーthe Thermaic Gulfーenclosed by land on three side……続きを見る

This volume provides modern, uncensored translations of Aristophanes’ Acharnians, Knights, and Wasps. These plays, originally a series, are the world’s earliest political satires, and are made avail……続きを見る

No século XVII, na Rússia, era preciso prestar muita atenção ao fazer o sinal-da-cruz. Quem errasse corria o risco de acabar na fogueira. O período entre 1598 e 1613 é conhecido na história russa co……続きを見る

Plato, in the Protagoras, suggests that the virtues are profoundly unified yet also distinct. In Plato on the Unity of the Virtues: A Dialectic Reading, Rod Jenks argues that the way in which virtue……続きを見る

“Ἡ συμπλήρωση διακοσίων πενήντα ἐτῶν ἀπὸ τὴν ἵδρυση τῆς Ἀθωνιάδος μέχρι καὶ σήμερα –καὶ μάλιστα ἡ λειτουργία της πάντοτε ὑπὸ τὴν αἰγίδα της– ἦταν ἡ αἰτία ποὺ ἡ Μονή μας διοργάνωσε τὴν ἡμερίδα αὐτήν,……続きを見る

“Τὸ βιβλίον τοῦτο δὲν πραγματεύεται οὔτε τὴν Ἱστορίαν τὴν μακρὰν καὶ ἔνδοξον τοῦ Ὄρους, τὸ ὁποῖον οἱ Αὐτοκράτορες τοῦ Βυζαντίου ἔστησαν μνημεῖον αἰώνιον τῆς εὐσεβείας αὑτῶν, καὶ εἰς τὸ ὁποῖον ὁ ἐν ἀ……続きを見る

“A morte, que faz tremer os homens, espantava-o tão pouco que parecia procurá-la.” (Quinto Curcio Rufo) Ele tinha apenas 20 anos quando assumiu o império macedônico e mais tarde se tornou o mais cél……続きを見る

The Complete Works of Thucydides Thucydides was an Athenian historian and general. His History of the Peloponnesian War recounts the fifth-century BC war between Sparta and Athens until the year 411……続きを見る

The Complete Works of Gaston Maspero Sir Gaston Camille Charles Maspero KCMG was a French Egyptologist known for popularizing the term "Sea Peoples" in an 1881 paper. Maspero's son, Henri Maspero, b……続きを見る

The Complete Works of Edward Gibbon Edward Gibbon FRS was an English historian, writer and Member of Parliament. His most important work, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, was……続きを見る

The Complete Works of John Clarke Stobart John Clarke Stobart, commonly known as J. C. Stobart, wrote two famous and influential books, The Glory that was Greece and The Grandeur that was Rome. He w……続きを見る

The Complete Works of Henry Osborn Taylor Henry Osborn Taylor was an American historian and legal scholar. This collection includes the following: The Mediaeval Mind (Volume I of II) : A History of ……続きを見る

Vorlesungen über historische Encyclopädie und Methodologie, die ich seit 1857 wiederholentlich gehalten habe, veranlassten mich das Schema derselben niederzuschreiben, um den Zuhörern einen Anhalt f……続きを見る

GREEK MYTHOLOGY For centuries, humankind has looked to legends and myths to make sense of the world. While some turned inward, focusing on the interior workings of the psyche, others were more conte……続きを見る

The Crown Games were the apex of competition in ancient Greece. Along with prestigious athletic contests in honor of Zeus at Olympia, they comprised the Pythian Games for Apollo at Delphi, the Isthm……続きを見る

An inspiring portrait of an overlooked pioneer in Black history and American archaeology The First Black Archaeologist reveals the untold story of a pioneering African American classical scholar, te……続きを見る

Magic was a fundamental part of the Greco-Roman world. Curses, erotic spells, healing charms, divination, and other supernatural methods of trying to change the universe were everyday methods of cop……続きを見る

‘Haynes neemt met humor en feministische zelfspot een hele reeks klassieke werken door op wat er over vrouwen staat. [...] Aanstekelijke en nog altijd noodzakelijke blikverruiming.’- Trouw ‘Haynes l……続きを見る

Taking as a key turning point the self-fashioning of the first Roman emperor Augustus, author Jennifer Finn revisits the idea of “universal history” in Polybius, Justin, and Diodorus, combined with ……続きを見る

Alexander the Great died when he was quite young. He was but thirty-two years of age when he ended his career, and as he was about twenty when he commenced it, it was only for a period of twelve yea……続きを見る

A treasury of astonishing mythic marvelsーand the surprising truths behind them Adrienne Mayor is renowned for exploring the borders of history, science, archaeology, anthropology, and popular knowl……続きを見る

Considers how ancient Greek comedy offers a model for present-day politics. With Democratic Swarms, Page duBois revisits the role of Greek comedy in ancient politics, considering how it has been ove……続きを見る

A gripping and groundbreaking history of how ancient cultures developed and used biological, chemical, and other unconventional weapons of war Flamethrowers, poison gases, incendiary bombs, the larg……続きを見る

Winner of CAMWS' 2023 Bolchazy Pedagogy Award. Ancient Women Writers of Greece and Rome features the extant writings of major female authors from the Greco-Roman world, brought together for the firs……続きを見る

Incontra gli antichi dèi greci - Mitologia per ragazzi/e dai 12 anni in su. Benvenuti nella serie Mitologia accattivante. Questo libro vi presenta le divinità, i titani e le altre creature mitologic……続きを見る

Conoce a los antiguos dioses griegos - Mitología para mayores de 12 años. Bienvenido a la serie Mitología cautivadora. Este libro presenta a los dioses, diosas, deidades, titanes y otras criaturas m……続きを見る

Cephalos was a very late patriarch within a well-arrived age of illustrious mythic personages. They had real biographies, although Cephalos' has suffered mostly expunction by Classical Greek Mytholo……続きを見る

Heliodorus' Aethiopica (Ethiopian Story) is the latest, longest, and greatest of the ancient Greek romances. It was hugely admired in Byzantium, and caused a sensation when it was rediscovered and t……続きを見る

One of the ten Attic orators included in the Alexandrian Canon, Lysias was a prominent figure of Athens in the fifth century BC. A loyal supporter of democracy, he took the side of the democrats at ……続きを見る

No writings of Epictetus himself are really known. His discourses were transcribed and compiled by his pupil Arrian (author of the Anabasis Alexandri). The main work is The Discourses, four books of……続きを見る